The NBA has had its fair share of infamous owners over the years, but only one has earned a lasting legacy so bizarre that it became synonymous with mismanagement. That would be none other Ted Stepien ...

Before LeBron James put the Cleveland Cavaliers on the global basketball map, the franchise had an up-and-down history marked by years of being a total laughingstock. The 1980 to 1983 seasons were ...

Long before the LeBron James era brought glory to Northeast Ohio, the Cleveland Cavaliers endured a chaotic period defined by the disastrous ownership of advertising tycoon Ted Stepien. From 1980 to ...

Ted Stepien, a former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers whose propensity for trading away draft picks resulted in an NBA rule change, died Monday at his home in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. He was 82. The ...

Assuming one can still call an owner of a professional basketball team an "owner," this piece is about two of them. Both owners are white and bigoted, but only one was white, bigoted and incredibly ...

The single most influential figure involved in the 2022 NBA trade deadline died over 14 years before the season began. Ted Stepien owned the Cleveland Cavaliers for roughly three years in the 1980s.

In the summer of 1980, a reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal called Ted Stepien, the advertising magnate who’d just spent $2 million to buy a controlling share of the Cleveland Cavaliers, because he ...

Former Cleveland Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien, whose propensity for trading away draft picks resulted in an NBA rule change, died Monday at his home in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. He was 82. Stepien paid ...